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Revision as of 22:16, 29 June 2007
A list of curators of Creative Commons-licensed content. Please add following the examples, or restructure if you have a better idea. This is just a beginning. Please help make it comprehensive!
There is some minimum combination of quality and quantity for inclusion. We'll know it when we see it.
Not certain that something should be added to this list? Add it to Talk:Content Curators.
For short lists of notable works, see books and film. This article is being broken up into format-specific directory/repository/curator articles.
Contents
- 1 Audio
- 1.1 Webradio
- 1.2 SectionZ
- 1.3 Simuze
- 1.4 Soundclick
- 1.5 SoundTransit
- 1.6 Starfrosch - Open Content
- 1.7 Opsound
- 1.8 Magnatune
- 1.9 Mix2r (pronounced "Mixter")
- 1.10 Jamendo
- 1.11 Jamglue
- 1.12 GlobalTune.net
- 1.13 Freesound
- 1.14 Garageband.com
- 1.15 Dmusic
- 1.16 Creative Collective
- 1.17 Dogmazic.net - Musique Libre !
- 1.18 CCHits
- 1.19 BeatPick - FairPlay Music Label
- 1.20 Ekleipsi Netlabel
- 1.21 ArtistServer
- 1.22 dharmasound
- 1.23 ccMixter
- 2 Video
- 3 Image
- 4 Text
- 5 Education
- 6 Multiple Formats
- 7 Other
Audio
Webradio
- Main URL: http://www.subflow.net
- CC-only portal: all music streamed is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: n/a
- Formats: mp3 192kbs
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 24/7 streaming, music from netlabel scene (~20Go, grow every week)
- Notes: 1 Ambient-Dub-Downtempo streaming + 1 Tech-Minimal streaming
SectionZ
- Main URL: http://www.sectionz.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.sectionz.com/cc.asp
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 530 songs (as of 20060310)
- Notes: supports most CC-licenses browsable via a flickr-like interface
Simuze
- Main URL: http://simuze.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed unless noted otherwise
- Newsfeed: http://www.simuze.nl/live/nieuws/wp-rss2.php
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1277 tracks (as of 2007-06-13)
- Notes: Simuze is not just an online platform but also organizes events where CC musicians perform.
Soundclick
- Main URL: http://soundclick.com
- CC-only portal: http://soundclick.com/genres/cc_license.cfm
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 248,664 songs (as of 20060726)
- Notes:
SoundTransit
- Main URL: http://soundtransit.nl
- CC-only portal: everything is CC licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
- CC-only feed: coming soon http://soundtransit.nl/book/rss-feeds.html
- Formats: audio (field recordings only)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1216 recordings (as of 20070613)
- Notes:
Starfrosch - Open Content
- Main URL: http://starfrosch.ch
- CC portal: Most of the songs are CC-licensed
- Feeds: http://starfrosch.ch/rss more at http://starfrosch.ch/tags
- Formats: audio: mp3
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 4000 Songs from over 300 Artists categorized by genre
- Artists are welcome to blog their songs
- 30'000 unique visitors monthly on the website, 100'000 unique visitors including spammers, aggregators and other funny animals
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfrosch (German)
Opsound
- Main URL: http://www.opsound.org/opsound.html
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes:
Magnatune
- Main URL: http://magnatune.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed:?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 373 albums (as of 20050823)
- Notes:
Mix2r (pronounced "Mixter")
- Main URL: http://www.mix2r.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed:?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 7 GB (as of 20061231) and growing
- Notes: Site allows users to contribute tracks of reuse stub tracks for their own mixes, audio projects.
Jamendo
- Main URL: http://www.jamendo.com/
- Notes: Jamendo hosts full music albums, available for both streaming and download on P2P (BitTorrent, eMule) ; Social tools, Web service, amazon-like recommendations ; Services for artists ; organization/recording of CC live performances.
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS/Podcasts/Javascript feeds
- Formats: audio: MP3 192k / Ogg Vorbis Q7
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 2800+ full music albums = 35000+ files (as of 20070613)
Jamglue
- Main URL: http://www.jamglue.com
- Notes: Has a flash-based mixer for remixing right in your browser!
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS/Podcasts feeds
- Formats: audio: MP3
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1500+ tracks, 2000+ mixes (as of 20061216)
GlobalTune.net
- Main URL: http://globaltune.net
- CC-only portal: Yes
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 2000+
- Notes: User contributed radio with listener driven rotation
Freesound
- Main URL: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/rss.php
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 13,317 sound clips (as of 20060124)
- Notes:
Garageband.com
- Main URL: http://www.garageband.com
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes: only allows by-nc-nd/2.0
Dmusic
- Main URL: http://dmusic.com
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: http://dmusic.com/feeds/cc_licensed.rss
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes: Dmusic is the oldest independent music website, featuring non-drm music, an active community, and lots of free upload space.
Creative Collective
- Main URL: http://www.tutaj.com.pl/geeklog/public_html/
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio:
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 174 files (as of 20050823)
Dogmazic.net - Musique Libre !
- Main URL: http://www.dogmazic.net/
- CC-mainly portal: 80% CC / 20% other Libre licenses
- CC-mainly feeds: m3u, rss, podcasts
- Formats: audio: mp3, ogg
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 7000 tracks, 400 full EPs - out of total +8200 tracks, 536 EPs; 900 artists, 100 labels (as of 20061106)
- Notes: music & information portal on copyleft/Libre music; all copyleft/Libre licenses welcome; frenchbased, lang= fr. & eng.
CCHits
- Main URL: http://cchits.org
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://cchits.ning.com/recent/rss/?xn_auth=no more at http://cchits.ning.com/faq/#podcast_client
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 357 tracks (as of 20070613)
- Notes: Built on the Ning playground, the whole system is open source and clonable.
BeatPick - FairPlay Music Label
- Main URL: http://beatpick.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio: mp3 / OGG / WAV
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 100+ artists/bands. 100++ albums/EP. 800++ tracks. Catalogue is growing day by day.
- Notes: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. Selected for quality artists only. Online Music licensing: all music is pre-cleared and can be licensed for commercial purposes.
Ekleipsi Netlabel
- Main URL: http://www.ekleipsi.com
- CC-only portal: yes
- CC-only feed: RSS-Releases
- CC-only podcast: Ekleipsi Podcast Episodes Releases Preview
- Formats: mp3 @ 192kbps / 128Kbps / 64Kbps / VBR
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Catalogue providing free musical releases. Growing every month.
- Notes: Ekleipsi is a netlabel focused on obscure music in all its forms and expressions.
ArtistServer
- Main URL: http://artistserver.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.artistserver.com/music.cfm (select Search by License)
- CC-only feed: planned
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 7009 songs (as of 20070613)
- Notes:
dharmasound
- Main URL: http://www.dharmasound.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://www.dharmasound.com/dharmaRssRelease.asp
- Formats: audio::mp3 @ 192kbps
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Catalogue growing every 15/20 days.
- Notes: Italian netlabel. We offer a range of different music genres.
ccMixter
- Main URL: http://ccmixter.org
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://ccmixter.org/rss/remix
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1,608 tracks (as of 20051214)
- Notes: Runs on CcHost, supports Sample Pool API
Video
InterCommunication Center[ICC], HIVE
- Main URL: http://hive.ntticc.or.jp
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: none yet
- Formats: video: MPEG4, WMV for online-streaming and downloadable files.
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 50+ media art interviews, symposia, concerts, exhibitions, workshops
- Notes: This is the online open video archive of NTT (Nippon Telecommunication&Telegraph) ICC, a media art center located in Tokyo that has promoted artists and activated discussions on new media and artistic expressions since 1997. ICC is one of the biggest-sized, private-run museums of the world, along with such organizations as the ZKM (Center for Arts and Media) in Karlsruhe,Germany, and Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
EngageMedia
- Main URL: http://www.engagemedia.org
- CC-only portal: yes
- CC-only feed: http://www.engagemedia.org/latestvideos/RSS2
- Formats: video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
Blip.tv
- Main URL: http://blip.tv
- Formats: video
Lulu.tv
- Main URL: http://lulu.tv
- CC-only portal: everything licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
- CC-only feed: http://www.lulu.tv/?feed=atom
- Formats: short videos
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
JumpCut.com
- Main URL: http://JumpCut.com
- Formats: video
Revver
- Main URL: http://revver.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed (all by-nc-nd 2.5)
- CC-only feed: http://revver.com/rss
- Formats: video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 19,100 videos (as of 20060408)
- Notes:
Image
Youraustralia
- Main URL: http://www.youraustralia.eu
- CC-only portal: all images except maps are CC-licensed.
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (jpg)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 350+
- Notes: Landscape images from most regions of Australia, high resolution (800 pixel wide), with location information and notes
Zorger
- Main URL: http://public-domain.zorger.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (bitmap)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Approx 1,000 images (as of 20061201)
- Notes: scans from pre-1922 books, 1950s scifi illustraions, photos
Ryoku Stock Photography
- Main URL: http://stock.ryoku.de
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: images
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: First release with 10 high quality images.
- Notes: A free stock photography project. The theme of the first issue is "Agriculture". All images are in very high resolution and under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. Images are tagged in German.
Open Clip Art Library
- Main URL: http://openclipart.org/
- CC-only portal: everything is public domain
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (vector)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: over 4300 clips (as of 20050823)
- Notes:
Taskforge
- Main URL: http://taskforge.njj.dk
- CC-only portal: everything is CC licensed
- CC-only feed:
- Formats: mostly graphics
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection:
- Notes:
h2guide MapWizard
- Main URL: http://www.h2guide.com/h/mapwizard
- Notes: CC-licensed clickable maps
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image,html
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: whole world up to a resolution of 1:500.000
piqs.de
- Main URL: http://www.piqs.de/
- Notes: German image-database with pure CC-content
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed (Attribution License)
- Formats: image
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 6,500+ images (as of 20070613)
Geograph British Isles
- Main URL: http://www.geograph.org.uk/
- Notes: Community creating a digital archive of photos covering every square kilometer of the British Isles
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS/KML/GeoRSS/GPX/Memorymap feeds
- Formats: image
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 461,250 images (as of 20070613)
Flickr
- Main URL: http://www.flickr.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ also CC-enabled search at http://flickr.com/search/advanced/
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 39,147,924 million photos (as of 20070613)
Design Reaction
- Main URL: http://www.designreaction.org
- CC-only portal: yes
- Formats: image, PDF
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: CC-licensed graphic design in the form of socially conscious posters
DC Nature
- Main URL: http://www.dcnature.com/
- CC-only portal: yes
- Formats: images: jpg
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 1000 images
- Notes: A community of natural historians who are showcasing the spectacular natural history and wildlife in the District of Columbia, USA
Text
Unearthtravel
- Main URL: http://www.unearthtravel.com
- CC-only portal: all text is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: NA
- Formats: text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Approx 1,000,000 words (as of 20061113)
- Notes:
Public Library of Science
- Main URL: http://plos.org
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: text (with images)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: all articles from PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine
IntraText Digital Library
- Main URL: http://www.intratext.com
- Notes: The IntraText Digital Library is a full-text Digital Library committed to accuracy and accessibility, offering texts and corpora as lexical hypertexts. The IntraText interface is best experienced with a Tablet PC or touch screen
- CC-only portal: almost all books and collections in the library are CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: None
- Formats: IntraText (HTML text+concordance) texts, collections and downloadable files
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: about 12 million pages in 40 languages (as of 2007.05.23)
Irish Literary Revival
- Main URL: http://www.irishliteraryrevival.com/
- CC-only portal: all books CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: PDF, Open Office, MS Word
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 12 authors, 14 texts
- Notes: previously published poetry and fiction books, out of print or circulation
Lulu
- Main URL: http://lulu.com
- CC-only portal: none, but advanced search may be restricted to CC-only
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: books
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
Education
Open-Of-Course
- Main URL: http://www.open-of-course.org
- CC-only portal: everything is open content
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 30 multilingual courses and tutorials
- Notes:
OER Commons
- Main URL: http://www.oercommons.org
- CC-only portal: Much content CC licenses, but not all.
- CC-only feed: Filter function is available
- Formats: audio, video, text, pdf, flash, powerpoint
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Thousands of CC-licensed and otherwise open resources.
omdb.org
- Main URL: http://omdb.org
- CC-only portal: Everything is CC (http://omdb.org/)
- CC-only feed: Everything is CC (http://omdb.org/movie/latest.xml)
- Formats: Text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Free multilingual database for film information, including relations and text information
- Notes: A network of open teaching and learning materials, with ratings and reviews. Materials for K12 and higher education, including lesson plans, videos, podcasts, lecture notes, and more.
Multiple Formats
GroundReport.com
- Main URL: http://groundreport.com
- CC-only portal: Yes
- Formats: text, images, audio, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 400+
- Notes: User-generated news source with ratings and revenue sharing
Internet Archive
- Main URL: http://archive.org
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?licensed_only=1
- Formats: audio, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Thousands of CC-licensed and PD videos and audio items. Huge.
- Notes: You can use http://creativecommons.org/tools/ccpublisher to license and upload media to archive.org
Kompoz.com
- Main URL: http://www.kompoz.com
- Notes: Kompoz.com is a social networking site for creating multi-track songs online with other musicians. With Kompoz, you can collaborate with anyone to create and mix a new generation of independent music based on the open standards of the "Creative Commons".
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS
- Formats: audio: MP3, WMA, WAV
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 200+ artists, growing daily (as of 20070321)
Odd Job Jack, Freejack animation assets
- Main URL: http://oddjobjack.com/freejack.php
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (vector), image (bitmap), flash movie (.fla)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 13 episodes worth of assets from TV's Odd Job Jack. Episode 1 has 77 characters, 28 props, and 231 cameras in an 800 meg torrent
- Notes: Every asset from this years 13 episode run is being released.
Ourmedia
- Main URL: http://ourmedia.org
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio, image, text, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes: subset of Internet Archive collection (uses IA for storage and bandwidth)
Overmundo Banco de Cultura
- Main URL: http://www.overmundo.com.br/banco/banco.php
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://www.overmundo.com.br/rss/rss.php?secao=banco
- Formats: audio, image, text, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: about 190 works (as of 20060410)
- Notes: in Portuguese
Podcast Spot
- Main URL: http://www.podcastspot.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.podcastspot.com/explore/cc
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1349 podcast episodes (as of 20070613)
- Notes:
Remix Reading
- Main URL: http://www.remixreading.org/
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio, image, text, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes:
Tree of Life Web Project
- Main URL: http://tolweb.org
- CC-only portal: only some content is CC-licensed (some images, the glossary, tree structure), CC discovery tools are under development
- CC-only feed: coming soon.
- Formats: image, video, audio, pdf, xml, text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: over 1000 images, growing continuously
- Accepting contributions from scientists and the general public. Many of our current CC-licensed images are imported from Flickr. By integrating them into our collection, they get annotated with taxonomic metadata, and they will become part of taxon-specific CC image feeds.
- Notes: The Tree of Life is a collection of information about biodiversity. We cover all organisms, living and extinct, plants, animals, fungi, protists, microbes. We started implementing CC-licenses in our media uploading tools in February 2007. We still have to build CC options into our search tools, and we are planning to make available CC image/video/audio feeds for any group of organisms.
Virtual Interactive Research Networks
- Main URL: http://www.virn.net
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed unless noted otherwise
- CC-only feed: NA
- Formats: All Video, MP3, All Images, Text
- Notes: Unlimited upload space, Social Enabled Site. Its more of a social marketplace.
Wikimedia Commons
- Main URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org
- CC-only portal: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_licenses
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (mostly), sound, video, text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Constantly updating
- Notes:
Other
REBOL
- Main URL: http://www.rebol.org
- CC-only portal: No: ?REBOL is license agnostic; license is decided by each contributor.
- CC-only feed: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/search.r?find=cc-by
- Formats: REBOL scripts
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: A few dozen scripts
- Notes: Find scripts by license type here: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/list-all-filters.r